Improvement in iron fences



UNITED STATES PATENT CFFICE.

JOHN Goan, or ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN IRON FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 133,528, dated December3, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN GORE, of Erie, in the county of Erie and Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements to be used in theConstruction of Iron Fences; and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference bein g hadto the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference markedthereon.

The nature of my invention consists in providing certain devices to beused in attaching the panels of iron fences to the upright posts whichsustain the same.

The object of myr invention is to provide a device or devices wherebythe panels of iron fences can be most easily attached to the postssustaining the same, and so attached as to be easily removed whendesired, and also so attached as to provide for the variation of lengthof the said panels caused by the action of heat upon the iron of whichthey are composed.

My invention consists of the following parts,

- which are constructed and used as follows, and

are shown in the drawing, as follows:

Figure 1 shows the upright post of an iron fence with my devicesattached thereto. The other figures, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, are views of mydevices, showing` their construction and use more fully.

In these figures the following letters indicate the following parts:

A is the upright post, and consists of a round rod of iron of thenecessary size, and at its lower end is made fast in a stone base. B Bare the upper rails of the fence. These I attach to the post A by aT-iron, B. This Tiron B is an iron casting, and is made to iit over thepost A, and is held imposition by a pin, C, which passes through it andthe post. The rails B rest on the faces of the arms of the T-iron B',and are bolted through slots b therein by bolts b. The slots b are toallow of a lateral motion caused by the variations of length resultingfrom the action of heat upon the rail B. The form of the T-iron B' willbe seen in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, which is a view from beneath. Fig. 4 showsthe position of the rail B and the post A. The device used in connectionwith the bottom rail of a'fence panel is `seen in Figs. 1, 3, 5, and 6.This consists of two pieces of casting, E and F, which are so fashionedas to be clasped about the post A, and are then bolted firmly togetherand to the post by the bolt G. When thus bolted into position the claspsE and F form, on each side of the post, sockets for the ends ofthebottom rails I. Fig. 1 shows the clasps in position on the post A. Fig.3 shows a top view of the same with the post A in section, and alsoshowing the position of the attach-- ing-bolt G. Fig. 5 shows the post Awith one of the clasps E thereon. Fig. 6 is a side view of the clasps EF, showing the socket I. The rails entering these sockets are so cnt asto not reach into the post A, thus leaving room for the expansion of theiron bar by heat.

By the use of my invention, the panels of a fence can be much moreeasily, quickly, and cheaply attached to the posts than by any formermode of attaching the same, and they can be as easily removed. By thisdevice a fence-panel can be very quickly removed, when desired, byloosening the bolts b and G, and their counterparts at the other end ot'the panel.

What I claim as my invention is as follows: The clasps E and F,constructed as described, in combination with the post A, and formingthe sockets I forthe lower rails, as shown and described.

JOHN GORE.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM BAAs, JNO. K. HALLocK.

